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A wry, contemplative journey into the heart of existentialism, challenging the reader to wake up to their own life before it is over. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Irrational man.
- introspective
- existential
- slightly absurd
- 01
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka
Hubben, William
A lucid, provocative journey into the minds of four outsiders who foresaw the chaos of the modern world.
- 02
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
A brisk, electrifying defense of human freedom that places the heavy, exhilarating burden of meaning squarely on your shoulders.
- 03
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus · 1959
A lyrical and defiant meditation on finding meaning and joy in a universe that refuses to offer any.
- 04
Sygdommen til døden
Søren Kierkegaard
A relentless, intellectually demanding plunge into the depths of human despair and the agonizing burden of becoming a self.
- 05
The Book
Watts, Alan Wilson · 1966
A gentle, mind-bending conversation that dismantles the illusion of your separate ego and welcomes you back to the universe.
- 06
The Will to Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1969
A profound, clinical exploration of how to find purpose amidst the pervasive emptiness of modern life.
- 07
At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell
Pull up a chair at a bustling Parisian café and eavesdrop on the brilliant, messy minds who defined modern freedom.
- 08
Ten philosophical mistakes
Mortimer J. Adler · 1994
A methodical and clarifying journey through the intellectual missteps of modern thought and their real-world consequences.
- 09
The ego tunnel
Thomas Metzinger · 2009
A radical, mind-bending philosophical journey that dismantles the illusion of the self.
- 10
Inner experience and neuroscience
Donald D. Price
A rigorous, cerebral exploration of how the physical brain gives rise to the profound depths of subjective human experience.
- 11
La nausée
Sartre, Jean-Paul; Translated by Robert Baldick · 2005
A visceral, diary-style descent into the overwhelming, suffocating realization that existence is entirely without inherent meaning.
- 12
The Modern Mind
Peter Watson · 2002
A sweeping, reflective journey through the intellectual currents and philosophical surprises that shaped the twentieth century.
